Chapter 114: Tail Ship 32
Qiong looked towards the second floor and suddenly realized: "...I understand."
"You are in cahoots with them! I should have known this earlier... You and Drake have known each other for a long time, and this was a plan you had discussed in advance!"
His eyes bulged blood red. "You treacherous and cunning people have been planning to plot against me for a long time. You also released those shadows, liars!"
He was lying on the ground, muttering incoherently, with illogical words coming one after another, as if he had gone mad under the threat of death.
"Liar, liar, liar..."
Qiong covered his head, his brain was in chaos and fragments were flowing away. His living life and his ghost life after death were torn into pieces. He saw his strict father in it. The father who never favored him.
"...You were damn right." He laughed miserably: "No matter what I do, I can never surpass your most valued son, my brother, Will, that arrogant guy who is always superior to others and looks down on me."
Jiang Yuelu interrupted him, "You are the least qualified person to blame Will."
"Why?"
"Just because I'm his weak and powerless brother?"
"Because he took away the talent that should have belonged to me? The favor and position that should have belonged to me?"
"It's okay, it's okay, I can let bygones be bygones. I came to the den of ghosts with the intention of reconciling with him, but he refused to even see me and kicked me out like a dog! Does he think that a useless brother like me is not worthy of being introduced to his family?"
Qiong said: "What a cruel brother! He even wrote 'not to let Qiong view' on his inheritance after his death..."
A milky white figure hit his face, like an angry fist thrown by a girl, "Don't you dare insult my dad? My dad is the best man in the world!"
Qiong was hit and stared blankly at the enraged Naidong in front of her, "...Jiang Rongrong?"
“If you dare to say bad things about my father again, I will kill you - I will kill you - I will kill you…” The jelly fell from the air like a leak and was caught in Jiang Yuelu’s palm.
"Ha. It's really her." Joan said with sarcasm, "She actually ran away... She didn't understand her situation at all. She and Will are really a perfect father and daughter."
Jiang Yuelu interrupted, "Didn't she ask you to stop saying bad things about Will?"
Joan said: "It's like this again, always like this, people always stand on Will's side, as if they are illuminated by his noble soul, as if it is natural to do things for him. I'm used to it."
Jiang Yuelu said: "He protected his brother, there is nothing wrong with that."
"Protect who?" Joan said as if she had heard something funny. "Does he have any other brothers in this world? You seem to be complimenting my father, but he was loyal to his wife all his life. Will and I are his only two children."
Looking at Jiang Yuelu's unchanged expression, his smile slowly froze on his face: "Could it be that you are talking about me?"
"That's right."
"Bullshit!" Qiong seemed insulted. "He protected me, how could that be possible! Why didn't he let me in? What's the point of taking me in in a den of evil? Does he dislike me for ruining his good reputation?"
Jiang Yuelu said: "Letting you go is the way to protect you."
He held up the blueprint in his hand and said, "Open your eyes and take a good look at what is needed to build this ship. Do you think it is so easy to make a ship float in the air? If it were easy, there wouldn't be so many evil spirits flocking to it. In the shipbuilding secrets left by your family, there is no record of a flying ship at all."
"Then why did Will draw a diagram of this ship?"
"Because he has to do it!"
June murmured, "Why... not?"
"Because of the history of this ship, the so-called truth you heard is actually all lies. Will didn't come to the ghost cave voluntarily!"
Jiang Yuelu remained calm: "From the beginning I was wondering why a human being like him would want to come to the ghost cave after swimming through countless oceans? Isn't he afraid of being torn to pieces by evil spirits? Even if he has the courage to take risks, he already has a wife and children at that time. Would he risk the lives of his family just for an adventure that would never return?"
"Besides, how can a living person easily cross the boundary between life and death and come to another world full of evil spirits?"
Jiang Yuelu stared at his face, and his eyes made Qiong feel fear for the first time.
“Because he was captured.”
June shuddered, as if he were hearing the whispers of a demon.
I can't bear to hear any more of it...
But it was as if an invisible hand grabbed his feet, making him unable to move. He could only grit his teeth and listen to Jiang Yuelu continue.
"Yes. Will became famous a long time ago. His good shipbuilding skills spread beyond the ears of corpses and into the ghost cave of the dead. The lord of this city has nothing to do all day long. One day, he came up with an absurd idea: he has traveled freely in the hell on earth, but the sky has not been touched by his evil claws."
"In the sky - there live gods."
"Why don't they dare to go to a place where even those wizards have to bow their heads and worship?" Jiang Yuelu asked again: "Why?"
"Because the gods are dead."
His words hit Tong Mian and Leng Wenhan hard. They felt as if they were struck by thunder eight hundred times. They looked up at the sky involuntarily, fearing that a bolt of lightning would suddenly fall and kill Jiang Yuelu.
However, such outrageous words are extremely bitter when you think about them carefully.
The gods are about to die.
There used to be spiritual energy everywhere, and gods could be found in every corner of the world. Later, when human life spread all over the earth, the gods disappeared one after another, and their voices could no longer be heard in human temples.
In the end, only an old god was left.
He had been protecting the wizards since the early days of the academy, and the ancestral gods of the Tong, Leng, and Kong families were also blessed with his divine power to continue. But Dean Kong said a long time ago that he was old and tired, and had entered a long period of rest. He had not spoken for decades.
I'm afraid that before long, they won't even be able to hear the voice of their tribal god.
Jiang Yuelu looked at the drawing material he found. In fact, only half of it was a drawing, and the other half was filled with crazy words.
“God is dying…He’s right.”
"He is the omnipotent Lord, the indescribable place. He will come one day and be resurrected... There will always be people who see it. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to approach you and worship you. Thank you... I offer you my ugly soul..."
He muttered these confusing words silently.
"The Lord of this city will wake up one day, and he will shoulder a certain mission."
"And the first step of this mission is to build a ship that reaches the sky. It will be as close to the abode of God as the giant tree that communicated with God in ancient times." According to historical records of wizards, they could hear oracles directly a long time ago. It was far from being as cumbersome as chanting spells to communicate with gods today. It was as simple as visiting them at their homes.
In that era, there was not even a clear distinction between humans, gods, and wizards. Various ethnic groups lived and multiplied together in bustling harmony, forming a barbaric yet prosperous scroll.
Jiang Yuelu said: "And at this time, the Lord of the Capital happened to know that there was a couple who possessed this magical ability."
"One of them has the technology to build a ship, and the other has a piece of wood."
Leng Wenhan said softly: "Wood?"
Drake upstairs also repeated: "...wood."
"Will's wife is an oriental girl with black hair and black eyes. She comes from the ancient Snow Village and is a member of a tribe that believes in the tree god. Due to some reasons, this tribe should have died out a long time ago, and the people who were not completely wiped out can only survive as ghosts like Ji Hongcha and Qin Xue."
"But by coincidence, this girl named Jiang escaped and survived. She also ran into Will by chance, and fell in love with this foreign young man. They got married and had children. If this continued, it would have been a happy ending. But this girl named Jiang was discovered by the Lord of Ghost City."
"Perhaps it was when Ji Hongcha and Qin Xue appeared in Ghost City that the City Lord discovered this magical tribe. He captured the Wills and forced them to build a sky-high ship for him."
"It's just ship repair. It's just wood. It's nothing compared to life. Besides, Will is a guy obsessed with shipbuilding. He can repair it if he wants to. Maybe Guixu's ship repair experience is in line with his adventurous positioning. But why would he rather risk his life than repair it, and why did he insist on resisting the Lord and trying to escape?"
Everyone present was fascinated by what was said.
Drake on the second floor couldn't help but mutter "Why", and was punched hard by Gurian who came to his senses.
Jiang Yuelu said: "When will a person stop being selfless and take his eyes off his obsession? That must be when other beloved things are threatened."
Tong Mian: “You mean…”
Derek: "His family's lives were threatened?"
The examination room had completely turned into a quiz show hosted by himself. Jiang Yuelu shook his head, "His family, including his own life, has been threatened."
Tong Mian: "But the Lord needs them to build the ship. If the ship is not repaired, their safety can be guaranteed. Let me make it clear that it is wrong for me to believe in the morality of ghosts."
His words made the ghosts upstairs and downstairs feel shot in the knees.
Jiang Yuelu: "Does boat building only require wood and craftsmanship?"
His words awakened everyone.
"Could it be--No way! Is there going to be a blood sacrifice?!"
Throughout history, exchanges with gods have always come with a bloody price. Whether praying for rain or calming floods, cruel living sacrifices are performed. Sometimes, even many living people are involved.
But this sky-high ship is even more special.
Jiang Yuelu whispered, "It's like a wild beast that has awakened long ago and has secretly selected its own delicious meal. In addition to many heads and blood, what it desires most is the free and sincere souls of the builders of this ship - the craftsmen who have been passed down from generation to generation. Without these souls, how could those ships sailing in the ocean be so carefree and happy. The beast can't wait to taste this kind of happiness."
"So he picked Will."
Jiang Yuelu lowered her head. The dumbfounded Qiong had already collapsed, unable to utter another word.
"Or you."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
